did we learn about globalization by looking at shoes? -- Coda: shoe is a gipsy business. …

During the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century, outsourcing and offshoring constituted one of the … most significant changes made by companies throughout the world. However, in more recent years, the process of offshoring … operations to the country of origin. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the footwear industry cluster in the province of …

mode of entry. One type of this mode is offshoring which makes easier the relocation of business activity from developed … economies to developing economies. The study of offshoring activities is the focus of this paper, with the data coming from a … multinational firms to be engaged in foreign direct investment via offshoring. …